The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump, think that everything is a disaster. The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. It's a point of fact that we're doing extremely well.